“If you are blessed with your health in these times, then embrace the feelings that you are faced with, try to deal with them for there is a blessing in every tragedy and we must find it in order to endure.” HealthTragedyMental HealthIllnessEnduranceCoronavirusCovid 19Covid19Aysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage and unabashed in its cruelty.” CoronavirusPandemicCovid19VirusCoronavirus QuotesEpidemicAysha TaryamCovid 19 Quotes Author:Aysha Taryam
“Social psychologists have likened the effects of COVID-19 to that of the great World Wars for the characteristics are all there down to the sirens and curfews; it is after all a life-altering event that has blanketed the world with uncertainty and an unfathomable restriction on personal freedoms.” FreedomMental HealthCoronavirusCovid 19VirusQuarantineAysha TaryamSelf Isolation Author:Aysha Taryam
“The ambiguity shrouding this whole crisis makes it all the more difficult for the mind to adjust to, runners can only pace themselves if they know how far the finish line is and yet in this race our finish line is just a prediction, an educated guess.” UncertaintyCoronavirusCovid 19PandemicCovid19EpidemicAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“This traumatic episode in history is proving to be one twisted psychological experiment on a massive scale, a testing whose effects on the mind will be studied for years to come for we know that after trauma comes the post-traumatic episodes and the world needs to be ready to help those of us who will need to be mentally supported once the worst is behind us.” Mental HealthTraumaMental IllnessCoronavirusCovid 19PtsdCovid19Aysha TaryamSelf Isolation Author:Aysha Taryam
“Aloneness seems to be the greatest byproduct of this invisible enemy for whether or not a person has been infected the condition is one of separation, a self-imposed isolation. Be it out of fear or guilt you are expected to stop your life in its tracks and confine yourself willingly and against all natural instincts to the walls that house you.” CoronavirusCovid 19Covid19VirusCoronavirus QuotesEpidemicCovid19 QuotesAysha Taryam Author:Aysha Taryam
“One dares to say that only a pandemic of this scale could have slowed down the rat race yet this too will prove beneficial to some of us and a sheer torture to others for the mirror that COVID-19 has forced us to look into is one that has no cracks, it reflects reality in its harshest form and unless we truly look, and come out the other side changed human beings, all this agony would have been for nothing.” CoronavirusCovid 19PandemicEpidemicRat RaceAysha TaryamSelf Isolation Author:Aysha Taryam